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...Declaration of Revolt" Berlin's storm squad flayed "the scandalous double-dealing of Adolf Hitler who has been used to Habsburg methods [he is Austrian...
Familiar are the main facts of his life: He was born a king. His blood is the most reactionary in Europe?both Habsburg and Bourbon. He married a granddaughter of Queen Victoria. His son & heir suffered for years from haemophilia (easy bleeding), was never expected to live for the succession, but is now apparently cured. Graven on the public mind is the fact that Alfonso plays polo a great deal, likes gunning and sailing, drives an automobile very fast...
Franz Joseph Otto Ruprecht Maria Anton Karl Maximilian Heinrich Sixtus Xaver Felix Renatus Ludwig Gaetan Pius Ignaz-put them all together they make Archduke Otto of Habsburg, pretender to the thrones of Austria and Hungary-last week attained his 18th birthday and his legal majority...
...himself, a pleasant youth in a scarlet & white Hungarian noble's costume, sat at the head of a table that contained members of the proudest, moldiest families in Europe. Ex-Empress Zita, in dead black, her only jewelry a large gold cross, sat at his right. With old Habsburg formality guests went in to dinner "according to the Spanish Court rules of precedence." With new Habsburg economy, they fared frugally on fish, meat, fruit, coffee. Next day aristocrats returned to the castle where they found Otto standing by his mother. He was dressed in a cutaway coat, wore white...
There was a birthday mass at St. Stephen's, dutifully attended by 2,000 Legitimists who later cheered "Otto I, King of Hungary," but neither government officials nor Habsburg archdukes were present...